Description
Stapled (saddle-stitched) booklets are a sleek, cost-effective way to present high-quality, professionally bound content with a polished finish. Whether you’re crafting an event program, product catalog, training manual, or corporate brochure, these booklets deliver crisp, secure binding and a lay-flat design, ensuring easy readability and lasting durability.
Why choose stapled booklets?
- Polished presentation – ideal for showcasing professional content with clean, sharp pages.
- Lightweight yet sturdy – easy to handle, distribute, and perfect for everyday use.
- Flexible sizing – compact A6, standard A5, or full A4, tailored to suit your needs.
- Cost-effective impact – high-quality appeal without a hefty price tag.
Our stapled booklets are ideal for a number of use cases such as:
- Event programs & orders of service – stylish, structured, easy to follow.
- Product catalogs – premium look, clear details, seamless browsing.
- Corporate brochures & reports – polished presentation for professionals.
- Training manuals & guides – structured layouts for effortless learning.
- Menus & price lists – sleek, practical, customer-friendly.
Some important information when setting up your booklet:
- Saddle-stitched booklets must have a page count divisible by 4 to ensure proper binding.
- PDFs must be supplied as single pages, not spreads, to ensure accurate printing and layout. Spreads combine two pages into one file, which can disrupt alignment.
- A4 Booklets are always bound on the 297mm (long edge). For A4 Landscape artwork, this will result in the booklets being bound across the top edge (akin to a flipbook rather than a conventional booklet)
- Please include a 3mm bleed on all sides; need help on setting this up? Please see our quick guide below:
Adding bleed to your file
Adding bleed ensures your design extends beyond the trim edge, preventing white borders after cutting. Here’s how to set it up:
- Photoshop: Add 3mm (0.125 inches) to each side when creating a document. Use rulers to set guides at the trim size and extend the design beyond them. Save as a PDF, ensuring bleed is included.
- InDesign: In the New Document window, enter 3mm (0.125 inches) in the Bleed section. When exporting as PDF, check Use Document Bleed Settings.
- Illustrator: In File > Document Setup, set 3mm (0.125 inches) bleed. When saving as a PDF, ensure bleed is included under Marks and Bleeds.
- Canva: Canva adds bleed automatically. To view it, go to File > View settings > Show print bleed. When downloading, select PDF Print and check Crop marks and bleed.
Technical Info
- For Saddle Stitch Booklets, please submit artwork as one file in running order (single pages not spreads).
- For example, a 20-page brochure should be supplied as one PDF with 20 pages running in page order.
- Booklets must contain a page total divisible by 4 (i.e. 8, 12, 16, 20 etc…)
- It is recommended you do not place words, page numbers or images too close to the edges of each page. We would recommend a safe zone on all sides of at least 5mm for Saddle Stitched brochures.
- Include 3mm bleed on all sides
- Supply as a CMYK PDF
- Scale 1:1
Most booklets are VAT Exempt as bound products – If your print contains space for writing or colouring this may make your item VAT rateable. If this is the case, we will contact you
Paper Info
100gsm Uncoated (A4 & A3 only)
120gsm Uncosted SRA3
300gsm Uncoated SRA3
A premium, ultra-smooth white paper, offering excellent colour reproduction for graphics and images. Image Impact Plus is FSC accredited for sustainability and is guaranteed for 200 years + for archiving purposes.
Image Impact Plus: an ultra-smooth, premium multifunctional quality uncoated paper offering a brilliant white surface to deliver excellent colour reproduction for graphics and images. Perfect for the offices and for commercial printing jobs.
Image Impact Plus utilises ColorLok® technology, specifically optimised for inkjet printing: papers awarded with the ColorLok® logo produce the best possible digital prints, featuring more saturated colours, bolder blacks, and faster drying times.
The Image Impact Plus paper is environmentally friendly - FSC® and ECF certified, awarded with the EU Ecolabel - and guaranteed for more than 200 years for archiving purposes.
- Premium quality, extra smooth paper
- Extra white paper
- FSC Certified
- EU Ecolabel certified
- Colorlok certified
- Suitable for Digital Printing
- Relevant Techniques
130gsm Silk SRA3
150gsm Silk SRA3
300gsm Silk SRA3
400gsm Silk SRA3
Novatech Digital Silk is the impeccable partner when you want to impress your readers with perfect colour reproduction of your message. Its market leading whiteness, smoothness and silk coating produces flawless images, and its advanced coating ensures precise and faultless runnability on your HP Indigo and dry-toner machines. The Silk coating's low reflection enhances the image and improves the readability.
It is available in most digital size and grammage requirements, allowing Novatech Digital to fulfil all you coated digital needs.
Novatech Digital is both FSC Certified and PEFC certified It is also recyclable.
Key Features
- Specially designed for high-quality dry-toner digital printing
- Enhanced opacity
- Perfect colour reproduction
- Excellent runnability
- FSC and PEFC Certified
Environmental Information
- FSC ® certified
- Heavy metals certificate (94/62 EC)
- PEFC
- ISO 14001
- EMAS
- ECF
135gsm Nautilus Classic Recycled SRA3
300gsm Nautilus Classic Recycled SRA3
A combination of an authentic recycled paper shade with a strong environmental profile. Nautilus Classic has a unique surface for ink density and sharp detail, it allows double side printing with no show through due to its high opacity.
- Hybrid Printing Technology
- Colorlok Technology
- FSC Recycled Certified
- EU ecolabel
- Blue Angel Certification
- 100% Post-consumer recycled paper
- 5 Green Star System
160gsm Super Smooth Uncoated SRA3
350gsm Super Smooth Uncoated SRA3
Xerox Colour Tech Plus Uncoated papers specially developed for colour laser printers, copiers and digital colour presses, this product produces beautiful images and crisp text
- Excellent level of whiteness
- High opacity and smoothness
- High level of stiffness
- Excellent dimensional stability
- Tested and approved by leading equipment manufacturers
- FSC® & EU Eco Label for environmental peace of mind
